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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nerd"”.
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Afraid To Be A Nerd: Effects of Nerd Stereotypes on Women’s Math Performance
… purpose of this research was to examine whether nerd stigma affects math performance. Specifically, it was hypothesized that women exposed to the nerd stigma would perform worse on a mathematics test than women not exposed to the nerd stigma. The current study also aimed to compare the effects of …
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nerd: A Neuron-Specific Gene in Drosophila Melanogaster Related to Vertebrate GAP-43
… biochemistry and genetics of the Drosophila gene nerd, which was isolated by vitrue of its DNA homology to mammalian GAP-43. Two proteins arise from the nerd locus and share a conserved motif, the GAP43 module. This twenty amino acid domain unites a small family of brainspecific mammalian proteins …
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A Great Time to Be a Nerd: A Phenomenological Study of Pop Culture Enthusiasts and Fandom
This thesis explores the significance of pop culture and fandom in the lives of local pop culture enthusiasts. Existing fandom studies focus on sports, religion, or politics whereas most media-based pop culture research involves niche fandoms. This study is important because it broadens the scope …
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Knowledge extraction from unstructured data and classification through distributed ontologies
… the Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation (NERD) web framework, publicly accessible on the Web (through REST API and web User Interface), which unifies several named entity extraction technologies. Moreover, we proposed the NERD ontology, a reference ontology for comparing the results of …
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Onboarding effects on employee engagement and retention : a mixed methods study exploring extending onboarding and its impact on long-term employee engagement and retention.
… The New Employee Recruitment and Development (NERD) Program prepares employees for success by providing the best tools, knowledge, and resources to ensure a successful transition from school to work. NERDs engage in a facilitated transition from school to work by engaging in various activities …
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Black Nerds Pleasure Reading Choices: Race, Representation and Prosocial Skills
… a group of young people who belong to the Black nerd subculture (aka Blerds) of urban Toronto. The participants are between 16 and 25 years of age and identify as predominantly working class. Research conducted with this group reveals that graphic novels, fan fiction, traditional comics and …
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Legendary Days – a novel, and the Aspects of Geek Culture in Fiction
… the definitions and uses of the terms ‘geek’, ‘nerd’ and ‘otaku’ over time. I look for points of commonality and how they have been used in texts since the seventeenth century. After this initial exploration, I move to a close reading of three novels that are representative of geek culture. …
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Assessment of the autonomic nervous system through the study of cardiovascular autonomic reflexes and their association with inflammation in three clinical settings.
… with non-erosive oesophageal reflux disease (NERD) and 8 with erosive oesophageal reflux disease (ERD) were investigated for HRV after initial diagnosis under gastroscopy. HRV assessment was repeated following 8 weeks of treatment with a proton-pump inhibitor (PPI). Initial reflux symptoms and …
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Cosplay & the geek: the tension between creativity, inclusion, & gatekeeping in cosplay. What types of gatekeeping do cosplayers experience?
In 2014, social media was taken over by #gamergate, a hashtag synonymous with misogynistic discrimination within the game development industry. Soon after this an avalanche of other hashtags highlighting sexism and sexual harassment (e.g., #metoo; #comicgate; #times up) within male-controlled …
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Playing Pirates: The Construction of Shared Fantasy and Identity Performance in theRenaissance Festival Subculture
This study examines how the renaissance festival setting offers a context for non-normative identity performance within a carnivalesque setting in which the construction of shared fantasy is the basis of social processes. It also asks how what social forces, such as popular media’s romanticized …